Nvidia GTX 1070 Specifications Revealed, Comparison With GTX 1080

Nvidia has released the hardware specifications for their upcoming GTX 1070 that is set to release alongside the GTX 1080 as the next generation graphics cards.

Nvidia GTX 1070 is the cheaper sibling of GTX 1080 and from the detailed specifications, it appear to be a little behind GTX 1080, although with a much more attractive price. You can check out the full system specifications below and see how they compare against GTX 1080.

Architecture

Pascal 16nm FinFET

Pascal 16nm FinFET

GPU

GP104-400

GP104-200

Streaming Multiprocessors

20

15

CUDA Cores

2560

1920

TMUs

160

120

ROPs

64

64 (TBC)

FP32 Computing Power (Base Clock)

8.2 TFLOPs

5.8 TFLOPs

FP32 Computing Power (Boost Clock)

8.9 TFLOPs

6.5 TFLOPs

Memory Type

8GB GDDR5X

8GB GDDR5

Base Clock

1607 MHz

1506 MHz

Boost Clock

1733 MHz

1683 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

2000 MHz

Effective Memory Clock

10000 MHz

8000 MHz

Memory Bus

256-bit

256-bit

Memory Bandwidth

320 GB/s

256 GB/s

TDP

180W

150W

Power Connectors

1x 8pin

1x 8pin

MSRP

$599 Base Price
$699 FE

$379 Base Price$449 FE

While GTX 1070 won’t be out until June 10th, we should be getting benchmarks for it as the release date draws near. It should be interesting to compare the performance between both of these graphics card considering the price difference.

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